Telegram-herald., 1887-09-13
A GREAT GOLD FEVER
RAGING IN rre UPPER PENINSULA.
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fsEPKNESs. Sept. n. 's7-We found lab
psming q t0Wn Boosting of freBn Gre 10 seven
Thousand Gla,iOu--considsrA sAesa
Of Aarqustts. both ia numbers aud enthus-
ssm. No c.iy could have more solid bk-
IS, for i i literally built Upon iron ole. A
portion Of the town having originally been
low land, that too. was filed IA aud built
up with ere. The streets and eide walks
glitter and sparkle with ore-dusg. present.
ing n novel and dazzling spectacle. The
buildings Of the place are substantial and
TAR ahead Of an ordinary, pioneer settlement,
although some of them are more than
twenty live years old. The cabin and hut
architecture Of western mining eld0fsdos
nowhere prevails sbont lsapemings the
placer dsggiug. with its crazy, nosting
crowd, being ont OF the question in the
Michigan region. Our precious met
ais were not deposited in that
scoopsd on, and Spannea.n he
gold veins crop out 20 be sure. and thus
was the gold first discovered, but the gilt
tering veins run deeply into the mighty
rocks and RdsmanLsne hills, and. n proven
vast and rich enOughl are only - Se worked
by gigantic machinery aud backed by enor-
nous capital.
10 illustrate this we would mention the
fact rlst the Irsi discovered and original
gold mine n this region, has already been
worked fof about three years by enihusi-
astic and enterprising Mr.. Ropes, with an
average of from twenty to thirty
men. and with not the most as
founding results We by no means
say that the Ropes mine Is failure.
nor that vssl wealth may not underlie his
grounds, but il is generally conceded that
his operations have been pushed for these
three years 10 but one great financial result
the impoverishment of Mr. Ropes.
The gold ore has been ali right the veins
are there. reasonably large and rich; but
even Samson could not thresh great fields
of golden grain With copper mill, nor can
Mr.. Ropes ever disembowel the Upper Pe-
ninsuls with a force of twenty or thirty
men. heroic though his operations have
been.
His has been string of had luck and G
lack of cooperation; and yet day after day
the developments have given public conf
dence 10 his mine. The greatest deposits
may be there
We should say riaht here that
until the Ropes find and push-off two
or three years back, the vast iron deposits
In and about lshpeming absorbed all atten-
ton. The cry everywhere was Iron!
lron." and the excitement. as well an the
ore, was immense. And there are now
thirteen large iron mines in radius of 8
few miles-most In the full blast of extern
sive and successful operation.
Among them are the Gle geland, employ
ing 500 men: the Lake Angeline, 450 men;
the Winthrop. 400 men: the Salisbury, 20O
men; the Superior. 500 men; the Barnum,
800 men; the Detroit Mine, 1o0 men; Nell
son Mine. l50 ETC.. etc.
In short. there are great and lordly pay
ing iron mines, both ia lshpeming, and all
around the little city.
DO you ask how largely they pay? How
much capital is invested How much out
| side stock has been sold in the East etc2
II would be impossible in q newspaper
| article 90 give the figures. We can truth
fully and advisedly say, however that the
iron ore of the Marquette and Ishpeming
regions is OF good quality, ordinarily easily
10 be gotten al. and the deposits simply i'm
| mense-prsctically inexhaustible Nor is
there any doubt that iron mining the world
over Is more or less profitable where
such facilities for transportation exist;
aud when such mountains of the ore are
| found, as on our Upper Peninsula.
But exactly how much profit there is in
digging ton out, and smelling and manu-
featuring H. and putting it on the market,
whether the question be put as to the Mich
| igan or other mining regions is mstter
| for the reports and State Statistics. They
say that figures cannot ne, out we are
persuaded that the men who make them
| can-often most outrageousiyi Bu. iron.
copper and lead mining have become az
substantial enterprises as digging up clay
| and making brick. or choppiDg down
| forests and saving them into lumber
| This gGd business, however, and to
| which we now returnj is wholly different
| matter. Nature was too stingy 10 pile the
stuff up IN the shape Of mountains. or "a
| make 1t into vast ranges or beds. a. iron ore
| or clay. Gold is the cream or metals. IL i.
| dug out OF creyices End cracks. often run,
| ming deep and vending through and under
/ the mighty rocks. To toe sure
nuggets are found; but they have beer
| melted and hidden away from man. Liz.
diamonds and rubies. they are hard 70 b,
| found. and the hunting after them ali il
both risky and expensive. IL has been saic
that every ounce of gold dust taken from
the earth has cost somebody a pillion dol
| lars, and there is little doubt Of IL But i
| is not at al 50 Of iron, coal, copper, LEAF
and eeen silver-tbe latter perhaps
The Upper Peninsula is Just breaking in
! to gold fever. which bids fair to rage b.
| another season. Already capitalists an
| miners from California 10 New 1ork-yea
| even from, England and Australia. are oI
the ground. Nobody yet knows what th
| outcome ma,' De-what golden hopes shsl
be realized.
We shall give fuller summary Of fact
and observations IN our next communics
| ton. EsRNEE REYNOLDS.
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